The Italian American Think Tank
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The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Mark Binelli’s debut novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists sentenced to death…
Four authors read from this collection of Italian-American autobiographical works edited by Lee Gutkind and Joanna Clapps Herman. This anthology consists of twenty-one original essays…
“A love song to the wounded world” is how Maria Mazziotti Gillan described Maria Terrone’s first book of poetry, The Bodies We Were Loaned. Terrone’s…
Fred Misurella’s Lies to Live By (Bordighera, 2005) dissects contemporary America by focusing on Italian Americans from various walks of life, especially as they relate…
Incomodo. Goffo. Brutto. Spiacevole. Mary Cappello’s immigrant grandfather traced these Italian words in the letters he wrote to her but never sent, words that speak…
“Luigi Fontanella moves between countries as an Italian who has lived in the United States for many years but returns often to his native land.…
Vittoria Repetto’s precise, compact, and colloquial cadences in the poems of Not Just A Personal Ad (Guernica Editions, 2006) assemble the reality of growing up…
Anne Marie Macari’s breath-taking second collection finds unapologetic revelation in the female body. Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005) re-examines motherhood, death, birth, and rebirth, drawing…
Emanuel di Pasquale’s Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems (Bordighera, 2007) spans forty years of his work. Di Pasquale poetry is connected to his Sicilian…
Growing up in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Danielle Trussoni was fascinated by stories of her dad’s adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Ultimately, she came…
Pulitzer-nominated playwright Richard Vetere reads from his recently published plays Machiavelli and Caravaggio, which both premiered in 2006. Machiavelli explores the Italian’s personal and political…
Unto the Daughters is a historical mystery and family story that unwraps layers of family, honor, memory, and fear to reveal an honor killing in…